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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, Come, see that you obey orders.

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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, That's nothing wonderful, Diogenes said, for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same.
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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, And I sentenced them to stay at home.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed.
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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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